Improvement in printing-presses



PRINTING-PRESS. No.177,6 99, Patented May 23,1876.

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N. PETERS, PHOTO-LITHOGRAPNER, WASHINGTON. DV 0 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD T. DOGKUM, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND THOMAS DOGKUM, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT lN PRINTING-PRESSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 177,699, dated May 2 3, 1876'; application filed April 25, 1876. 7 i

To all'whom it may concern B it known that I, EDWARD T. DOGKUM, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved'Priuting- Press, of which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a vertical section taken through the line 00 as, Fig. 2. Fig.'"2 is a front view of the press.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved printing-press, simple in construction, inexpensive in manufacture, convenient in use, and efl'ective in operation.

The invention consists in the lever bent at right angles, pivoted to the frame by a single bolt or piu,and having four arms projecting in the form of the letter X, formed upon its upper end to receive the set-screws for adjusting the platen, as hereinafter fully described.

A is the frame of the press. B is the bedplate, and O is the-inktabl e, which are cast frontof the bed-plate B is bent upward at right angles, and through its end passes the screw F, which screws into and supports the ters Patent, is I The lever D, bent at right angles, pivoted to the frame A by a single bolt or pin, E, and having four arms, H, projecting in the form of the letter X, formed upon its upper end to receive the set-screws for adj ustiug the platen, substantially as herein shown and described.

EDWARD T. DOOKUM.

Witnesses:

JAMES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MOSHER. 

